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INDEX or CONTENTS. 



habitat of Chalcopsittacus duiven- 

 boclei, noticed, 160; description of 

 Traversia lyalli, 268 ; exhibition of a 

 typical specimen of Oraspedophora 

 luantoui, 269 ; exhibition of a speci- 

 men of Pteridophora alberti, 277 ; 

 exhibition of a collection of Birds of 

 Paradise, 277 ; exhibition of ^Eluroe- 

 dus jobiensis, 377 ; note proposing 

 the name Spermophilopsis for Drepa- 

 norhynchus pre-occupied, 384; note 

 on Sterna vittata from Bounty Is- 

 land, 385 ; on a new Miro from the 

 New Zealand Region, noticed, 401 ; 

 on Salvadorina waigiuensis, noticed, 

 160, 401 ; ' Avifauna of Laysan,' note 

 on, 408 ; exhibition of specimens of 

 Birds of Paradise, 486. 



Rothschild, W., and Hartert, E., on 

 Salvadorina waigiuensis, noticed, 

 160 ; on a new Bustard from the 

 Palcearctic Region, noticed, 401. 



' Royal Natural History,' noticed, 396. 



Sabine's Snipe, note on, noticed, 4S8. 



St. Kilda, exhibition of a specimen of 

 Sylvia subalpina from, 268. 



Salvadori, T., remarks on the Ducks of 

 the genera Anas and Nyroca, 136 ; 

 on two Parrots of the genus Pyr- 

 rhura, noticed, 401 ; catalogue of 

 Modigliani's birds from Si-Pora, 

 IViantawi Islands, noticed, 401. 



Salvage Islands, expedition to the, 383. 



Salvin, O., exhibition of photographs of 

 a specimen of Diomedea melano- 

 phrys in the Peterhead Museum, 273 ; 

 on birds collected in Peru by O. T. 

 Baron, noticed, 402. 



, and Godman, F. D., ' Biologia 



Ceutrali-Americana,' noticed, 281, 

 394. 



Samoa, exhibition of a skin of Phasianus 

 torquatus from, 275. 



Santa Elena, notes on the birds of the 

 Estancia, 213. 



Saunders, H., description of the genus 

 Micranous, 276 ; remarks on the 

 Rhynchopina;, 377. 



Schalow, H., on tlie oology of the 

 Ratitffi, noticed, 160 ; on the question 

 whether the German Ornis is worked 

 out, noticed, 16) . 



Sclater, P. L., Chairman's Address to 

 the British Ornithologists' Club, 140; 

 exhibition of eggs of two species of 

 Macaw which had been laid in con- 

 finement, 145 ; exhibition of a skin 

 of Wilson's Phalarope from the Falk- 

 land Islands, 145 ; the ' Scomber- 



scomber ' principle, 168 ; the bird 

 collection at Zurich, 168 ; remarks 

 on Holland's birds from the Estancia 

 Sta. Elena, 213; exhibition of a skin 

 of Falco punicus whicli had been 

 captured in the Mediterranean, 273 ; 

 note on Reiser's ' Ornis Balkanica,' 

 273 ; exhibition of a pair of Nothura 

 darwini from Patagonia, 276 ; on the 

 Bower-bird recently described by Mr. 

 C. W. De Vis as Cnemophilus marite, 

 343 ; extracts of letters from, relative 

 to birds observed on his excursion to 

 Egypt, and the mode of carriage of 

 the legs in Birds of Prey, 376 ; ac- 

 count of his journey up the Nile, 

 381 ; exhibition of skins of Falco 

 richardsoni, 487 ; exhibition of a nest 

 and eggs of Ptyonoprogne obsoleta 

 taken in Upper Egypt, 487. 



Scottish Natural History, Annals of, 

 noticed, 279, 385. 



Sealy, A. F., obituary, 301. 



Seebohm, H., exhibition of specimens of 

 Merula thomassoni from Northern 

 Luzon, 137 ; exhibition and descrip- 

 tion of Parus holsti and Rallina for- 

 mosana from Formosa, 146 ; on some 

 new and little-known species of birds 

 from Formosa, 21 1 ; note on Geo- 

 cichla sibirica and G. davisoni, 275 ; 

 exhibition of some birds from the 

 A moor River, 383 ; ' Classification of 

 Birds,' supplement, noticed, 499. 



Severtzow, N. A., and Menzbier, M. A., 

 Ornithology of Turkestan, noticed, 

 285. 



Shag, notes on the Auckland-Island, 

 39. 



Sharpe, R. B., exhibition of and re- 

 marks upon the type of Micropus 

 nehrkorni, 137 ; remarks on the 

 species of the genus Diphyllodes, 137; 

 description of Defilippia burrowsii, 

 138 ; remarks on the Grebes of the 

 genus Tachybaples, 138 ; note point- 

 ing out that Defilippia burrowsii 

 is refej'able to D. leucoptera, 146 ; 

 exhibition of a specimen of Sylvia 

 subalpina from St. Kilda, 268 ; 

 remarks on Pteridophora alberti, 

 and list of genera and species of 

 Paradise-birds, 270 ; descriptions of 

 the genera Drepananax, Eucorax, 

 and Xanthochlamys, 273 ; note on 

 the generic name Xanthochlamys, 

 275 ; remarks on Canon Tristram's 

 paper ' On use and abuse of Generic 

 Terms,' 276 ; note on the reported 

 occurrence of Spatula clypeata and 



